BRITAIN'S RECORD CROP.
SHORTAGE Or HARVESTERS. (Received 12.45 p.m.) LOXDOX, May 27. Farmers throughout the country anticipate excellent, perhaps record, crops. Mr R. E. Prothero (President of the Board tf Agriculture), speaking at Bedford. Aid that the acreage was the highest oi α-cord, but owing to the withdrawal of half a million labourers there was danger of labour shortage. He appealed to women to replace men. The Ministry of National Service had completed a scheme for employing schoolboys harvesting.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1918, Page 5
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